EMPTY GESTURE OF SABER RATTLING

According to The Emet Report, DEBKAfile, Israel Today and other sources, there seems to be a lot of speculation coming out of the Middle East that the U.S. and Israel are preparing to attack Iran.
　
While Israel, out of desperation, may at some point attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, you can bet the U.S. is not going to do that. There's no way we can afford a war with Iran, either militarily or economically. Shit, with all of our sophisticated weaponry, we can't even defeat the ragtag Taliban militants armed only with AK-47s, rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and home-made mortars.

The deployment of U.S. warships off of Iranian waters is just an empty gesture of saber rattling. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have brought us to the brink of bankruptcy. And now we’re going to blow another huge wad on a war with an Iran armed to the teeth with some of the latest Russian and Chinese weapons technology? No way!

REPORT: ISRAEL, U.S. PREPARING FOR WAR WITH IRAN
　
Israel Todlay
June 24, 2010
　
A flurry of news reports over the past week indicate that Israel and the US are readying for an imminent military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
　
On Wednesday, Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency reported that about a week ago a squad of Israeli military aircraft landed at a military airstrip in Saudi Arabia, of all places. It was reported earlier this month that Saudi Arabia had agreed to let Israel pass through its airspace in order to strike Iran.
　
The Israeli aircraft reportedly landed at the airport in Tabuk in northwest Saudi Arabia, which according to the report will act as the central base of operations for the Israeli air campaign against Iran.
Fars cited a local Saudi resident who said the Israeli presence and cooperation between the ruling local Saudi prince and the Jewish state was the talk of the town.
　
Saudi Arabia does not have formal relations with Israel, and publicly refers to the Jewish state as an enemy. But Riyadh is just as fearful of an Iranian nuclear bomb as Israel, and would likely resort to any means to avoid having its regional economic influence disturbed.
　
At the same time, Iran's Press TV reported that a very large contingent of US ground forces had massed in neighboring Azerbaijan. The independent Azerbaijani news website Trend confirmed the report.
　
Those reports came just days after the Pentagon confirmed that an unusually large fleet of US warships had indeed passed through Egypt's Suez Canal en route to the Persian Gulf. At least one Israeli warship reportedly joined the American armada.